1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 cup white sugar
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cocoa
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 cup blackberry jam
1 cup sifted confectioners sugar
1 to 2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon butter or margarine, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Combine flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa, cinnamon, and
allspice. Dissolve soda in buttermilk, stirring well. Cream butter
or margarine and sugar, beating well. Add egg yolks, beating
mixture well. Mix flour mixture into the creamed mixture
alternately with the buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending
with flour mixture. Fold in blackberry jam. Pour batter into a
greased and floured 10 inch bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees
for 45 to 50 minutes, or until cake tests done. Cool in pan for
15 minutes. Remove from pan, and

completely. Combine
confectioners' sugar, milk, butter or margarine, and vanilla.
Beat until mixture is smooth. Spoon over

ed cake